The Absence of God

So all this talk of predestination and fore-ordination…it truly affects every aspect of our world. If God has chosen to limit himself by his love for us…if we really do have a free will (and I believe both of these to be true)…then we soon find explanations for many other questions we have concerning God, creation, and our existence. How about the big one? How can a good God allow evil in the world? Great question! First, lets define evil…just what is it? How bad must bad be to call it evil? That is a little more difficult to answer as there is no scale of evil to measure bad experiences by. Classically defined, evil is the absence of good. Just as what we call darkness is actually the absence of light, and what we call cold is really the absence of heat, what we know as evil is actually the absence of God. Check it out; you will find that to be the case every time! Since we know from Arminianism that God has limited God’s self because of his love for us, would God force us to turn to him (thus eliminating evil)? No, that is our choice, therefore, one can deduce there is evil in our world today because humanity (at least some of us) has chosen to turn away from God, and evil acts are the result. Did God allow it? Not unless we are just puppets and God is pulling our strings! Now, what would our world look like without evil? I think it would be the answer to prayer: the Kingdom has come to earth!